Sorta but not necessarily, lotsa weird **** on the high seas
( I live near the coast in SoCal)
My first IC-706m2g was a modded unit that I bought off Craigslist from a
local marina, seems the guy's mate/wife couldn't get used to the layered
menu operation as easily as their Commercial Maritime Icom, even though
it had all marine HF and VHF channels with alphanumeric tags programmed
into it.
A friend of mine and his wife came into a lot of money when her aunt
died, and they went on a lot of cruises, and they almost all had a
"backup" HF radio, actually used more than the "official" one, usually
one of the mid or lower end K/I/Y radios.
He would always talk to the radio guy and they had a lot of oddball
freqs programmed into memories.
I would say a large percentage of them use Kenwood/Yaesu/Icom radios,
modded to TX "everywhere". There was a group on Kenwood TS-450's years
ago, trying to figure out how to do some stuff on it. Only one of the
boats had the manual. It was pretty funny.
I used to get a kick out of listening to the fish band ch-16 on the
weekends when the yuppies (long gone broke) would go out on the bay with
their new sailboats to 'learn' how to sail, and keep the marine operator
busy with their frantic "I'm headed for the rocks" calls.
Vessel Assist did a thriving business back then.
Yeah, it's pretty funny here too, lots of sheared prop pins, or just
dead in the water boats needing to be towed in. Most of the traffic is
pretty minor stuff, but sometimes it get's exciting. If I had the money,
I could really grab a boat for a super cheap price. The used places have
tons of them, one place has more now than they had about 25 years ago,
and a lot of them are marked down to get rid of them, as they are pretty
much running out of room.
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